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A Scarlet Tanager Alights On A Branch, John Grey

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The stopping, admiring,
is all on my side.

Lavender Bride, Robert Kostuck

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Svetlana and Valery at the late edge of a summer weekend, aligned vacations, rented bicycles, wool sweaters, damp air spilled inland from the half-empty beaches.

Hitler Stamp, Paul Hostovsky

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I traded ten triangular
Mongolian stamps for Hitler,

Moving On, Joyce S. Brown

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Twenty minutes into death
and whatever happens there,

This And That (For Coleman Barks, October, 2008), Lisa Starr

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A while back you said, You know, one of these days
you're gonna have to write that poem about that deer,

Ginger, Charles Butterfield

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After Sam's truck clears the hill, all Lucius hears is the cooing of wild pigeons in the cavernous haymow.

Seashells Never Say Much Anyway, Joshua R. Mora Pagkalinawan

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Envelope me in your existence
until the mailman gets tired

Former Things Are Passed Away, Rebecca Melnyk

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I.

On Saturdays, Daddy likes to take the Coupe Deville through the

center of town,

A Bad Sandstorm, Sheryl L. Nelms

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"We all
saw it coming

In Praise Of Cowards, William Jolliff

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No brave man could ever imagine
how much a coward can tolerate

Bayou Mirror, Iris Litt

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At first on the island
I gushed my amazement

Lethal Injection, David Dragone

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It didn't matter where you stood--
It was the way they botched his killing

Nothing At All, Ali Morreale

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You sit and you look at all the strange faces,
on the bus that drives you not far.

Elvis At The Dunkin Donuts, Gregg Moglia

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Coffee at hand I sit alone and begin
To read some Walt Whitman

Making History, Charles Webb

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Columbus didn't think, "I've discovered
America!" He was happy just to find dry land.

Poem For Humphrey Bogart, Herman Bush

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You always said the world
was three drinks behind,

At The Post Office, Martha Christina

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A blue tooth device
glows behind the ear

Heist, Rachael Colasanto

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Your scent lingers on my pillow.
You've entered my space,
The place for my thoughts.

Lost Memory, Jane Stuart

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You were--
you are--
a dream

Lost At Sea, Dylan Thomas

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One dark day
my love was washed away

A Fried Egg, Ellen Cooney

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a fried egg
a small sun

She Feeds Me Now, Susan Johnson

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I read cookbooks as if they were ancient texts,
the life of grandmother's grandmother translated

Cul-De-Sac, Dennis Saleh

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The night at
the door is
torn and frayed

The Accident, Victoria Melekian

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I pass the stone walls
of the bridge. Bouquets

Clown School In France, Lee Kisling

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How do these two things fit together--
the rain falls on the just and the unjust, and yet

Zoot: A Rondel, Philip Dacey

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In '42, Los Angeles banned the zoot suit.

Crime came woven into the clothes some wore.

Drownproofing, Tom Chandler

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Just cup your hands

and peel back

water like sky.

Saguaro, Dennis Saleh

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The desert night

touches the air

like the perfume

of a woman

Rhetor, Dennis Saleh

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"Words fail me." Why read further then?

Well, because you see the words do continue,

An Element Of Style, Charles Sabukewicz

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A noun by definition

can be almost anything: